{"id":2287,"date":"2022-04-07T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:30:49","slug":"time-to-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"Time to Catch Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/An idiom is a phrase or expression that has a non-literal meaning. Some, like “to catch up” can have more than one meaning.\n<\/p>\n

This week I have found myself catching up in various ways:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Of friends or relatives, to update one another on life events. <\/em>We just returned from a 2-day trip to Wyoming to visit with relatives. There, over lunch, we were able to catch up with one another’s news. We looked in on my 91-year-old mother-in-law and heard accounts of recent travels made by siblings. We exchanged health information.\n<\/li>\n
  2. To make an effort to become current with something after having fallen behind<\/em>. Back at home now, I need to catch up on all the chores that languished while I was away. After unpacking, I must tend to neglected e-mail and household tasks.\n<\/li>\n
  3. To be involved in something<\/em>. Once I have completed the other catching up activities, I can once again be caught up in my favorite work\u2014genealogy.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All this catching up is tiring, and I will be happy once I am again caught up with everything. It’s good to be home.\n<\/p>\n

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    An idiom is a phrase or expression that has a non-literal meaning. Some, like “to catch up” can have more than one meaning. This week I have found myself catching up in various ways: Of friends or relatives, to update one another on life events. We just returned from a 2-day trip to Wyoming to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}